The deciduous magnolia trees have started their bloom here in California. The calendar says it is winter, so I suppose we must call them winter flowering trees, but for those of us who garden in California, the season most of the world calls winter, we call spring. This is a summer-dry climate which means winter-wet, and [...]
A garden photograph is not simply a landscape photo taken in a garden. It should communicate something about gardening, something that enlarges the viewer’s understanding and appreciation of gardens. This photo of fresh emerging, nearly chartreuse foliage of Rhododendron hyperythrum is a fine landscape photo, a nice leaf pattern with a sense of vibrant young leaves unfolding, [...]
I have really been having fun learning how to run the garden photography workshops at San Francisco Botanical Garden. Each class has become a lesson on one particular theme. You too can learn, by giving yourself an assignment, something to work on – and just do it. For instance “focal points”. Here, at SFBG we [...]